Heart Disease Begins In Childhood
Wednesday, July 22, 2015 - 09:50
in Health & Medicine
Are the first signs that someone is at risk of developing cardiovascular disease detectable in toddlers and preschoolers? There's evidence that low vitamin D levels in adults are linked to cardiovascular disease, as well as other health issues such as obesity, hypertension and diabetes. But that link hadn't been studied in children. Researchers in Toronto examined vitamin D levels in children ages one to five and the non HDL- cholesterol level in their blood, a marker of cardiovascular health. (Non-HDL cholesterol is basically all of a person's cholesterol minus his or her HDL or good cholesterol.) read more